Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News applies penalties. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com/matplotlib)

×8.12 77 | 880 points by wrxd 19 hours ago | 689 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says (ft.com)

×6.14 66 | 348 points by mraniki 16 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal (economist.com)

×3.99 75 | 92 points by doener 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)

×2.62 60 | 252 points by beardyw 17 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health (bbc.com)

×6.34 47 | 91 points by saikatsg 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box (realfood.gov)

×2.63 45 | 74 points by burkaman 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)

×2.50 42 | 152 points by belter 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?

×1.18 48 | 26 points by gusmally 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ai;dr (0xsid.com)

×5.04 40 #50 | 627 points by ssiddharth 14 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code is being dumbed down? (symmetrybreak.ing)

×5.40 36 #75 | 1052 points by WXLCKNO 1 day ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)

×4.75 35 | 164 points by bourbonsec 19 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)

×2.84 37 #49 | 272 points by foresto 10 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance (theverge.com)

×4.45 31 #85 | 655 points by jedberg 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discord just killed anonymity (michael-dev-tech.github.io)

×2.72 34 #58 | 131 points by f0r3st 9 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The DOJ is spying on members of Congress who review the Epstein files (cnn.com)

×4.44 50 | 8 points by Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (techdirt.com)

×2.97 27 #47 | 192 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)

×2.03 24 #61 | 170 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)

×3.40 24 #39 | 329 points by ryanhn 12 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) (thepragmaticcto.com)

×1.60 23 #81 | 111 points by birdculture 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (minimax.io)

×2.01 22 #57 | 175 points by denysvitali 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (kibty.town)

×3.56 20 #52 | 934 points by JustSkyfall 1 day ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars (techcrunch.com)

×3.52 27 #48 | 18 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (jasongodfrey.info)

×2.33 17 #46 | 151 points by heifer 12 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com/tonyyont)

×4.14 15 #41 | 949 points by doppp 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment (ssrn.com)

×2.62 14 | 301 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 (arstechnica.com)

×1.90 14 #86 | 131 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics (susam.net)

×2.23 26 | 4 points by susam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work (vangemert.dev)

×2.17 13 #77 | 427 points by spmvg 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)

×4.59 15 #18 | 350 points by c420 7 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (biorxiv.org)

×2.22 21 | 4 points by eq_ind 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics (missionlocal.org)

×10.27 11 | 330 points by computerliker 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory (cell.com)

×2.84 8 | 338 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code, Codex, and Other IDEs (github.com/PeonPing)

×2.55 57 | 3 points by theshrike79 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)

×6.60 8 #9 | 1687 points by scottshambaugh 15 hours ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (z.ai)

×2.21 7 | 376 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Vibecoded AI Operating System (github.com/viralcode)

×1.67 13 | 3 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rari – Rust-powered React framework (rari.build)

×0.95 6 #42 | 121 points by bvanvugt 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning (amplifypartners.com)

×1.74 10 | 3 points by rocauc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why vampires live forever (machielreyneke.com)

×3.24 5 | 390 points by machielrey 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter (fluorite.game)

×2.04 4 #78 | 522 points by bsimpson 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NetNewsWire Turns 23 (netnewswire.blog)

×1.61 4 | 331 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring owners are returning their cameras (msn.com)

×4.05 10 #15 | 24 points by c420 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you (skipthe.tips)

×2.70 1 #5 | 247 points by randycupertino 6 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don't want them (nakedcapitalism.com)

×1.98 1 | 4 points by iamnothere 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???